My life is a sentence that carries no pardon,I can't put you out of my misery now,So stunned by beauty of this madhouse garden -I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow).

This body's a temple - a shoddy construction,I'm digging my grave - while boring the well,I'm paving a path to my own self destruction,I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell.

No I won't be content 'til I see me in Hell.

I've looked back on my time - the names and the faces,A child long ago that I nearly forgot,And felt like someone who'd just stepped on the placeWhere the last stair should have been - (then found it was not).

Life's just a process of delamination,Stripping your hopes - dissecting them gently.I've opened my heart - and to my consternationWhen I peered inside it was small, dark and empty.

[Chorus:]My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing,Drinking and smoking like somebody died.I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin,The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise. "

I'm building a ruin - I ruin a building,My bridges are burned out - my tunnels are filled in.

It's all a game I believe - the longer you play it the harder it gets.The most I can hope to achieve now's my breakfast,A priest with a blindfold and last cigarette...

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing,Drinking and smoking like somebody died.I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin,The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise. "

My friends turn to me - wonder what I am doing,Drinking and smoking like somebody died.I said "Leave me alone I'm just building a ruin,The spirits are sunken - so the wreckage must rise. "